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    This is Fred Clement, former occupant of the Thomas Hardy chair at Cambridge in the years before it became an Atomic Engineering School.†  (source)
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    He didn't seem to; he went on writing down his strange curlicue notes about Thomas Hardy in Phineas Shorthand.†  (source)
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    Thomas Hardy expresses the same thought in his poem Transformations': Portion of this yew Is a man my grandsire knew, Bosomed here at its foot: This branch may be his wife, A ruddy human life Now turned to a green shoot.†  (source)
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    We had a lot of nineteenth-century stuff by Thomas Hardy and people like that, which was more or less useless.†  (source)
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    He knew she read incessantly—Shakespeare, Henry James, Dickens, Thomas Hardy—but he did not think this could fill her days.†  (source)
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    "Yea, he; and he brought such; and you'll know him anon." Thomas Hardy, Who's in the Next Room?†  (source)
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    He was a Thomas Hardy fan, too, and at my birth had wanted to name me Arabella, which my mother said sounded like something you'd better hope not to get during pregnancy.†  (source)
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    Our conversation ebbs and flows in majestic waves like the sea—Hart Crane, sex, Thomas Hardy, sex, Flaubert, sex, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, sex, Huckleberry Finn, sex.†  (source)
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    He thought of Thomas Hardy.†  (source)
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    —Thomas Hardy (1840—1928), British author and poet Jean-Luc?†  (source)
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    Thomas Hardy, whose poor heroine in Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) provides table fare for the disparate hungers of the men in her life.†  (source)
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    SinclairLewis, Sherwood Anderson, Dostoevski, George Moore, Gustave Flaubert, Maupassant, Tolstoy, Frank Harris, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, Arnold Bennett, Stephen Crane, Zola, Norris, Gorky, Bergson, Ibsen, Balzac, Bernard Shaw, Dumas, Poe, Thomas Mann, 0.†  (source)
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    FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD by THOMAS HARDY PREFACE In reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd," as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word "Wessex" from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom.†  (source)
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